Large spaces and good art aside, for those of who don't care that much for
adventure serials (or hillbillies, for that matter), the '30's are less of
a Golden Age than a, well, not a Dark Age, but at least a Grey Age.
Nonetheless, the Post comics page matured nicely during the decade,
ending with a pair of panels and five, then six, then seven strips that were
mostly solid and were given the chance to find their legs without being
allowed to stagnate (although, admittedly, both Freckles and Boots were a
bit past their sell-by dates by the end of the decade). It never quite
grew back to a full page due to a quarter-page of text-based features and
ad copy on the left side of the page, but it filled the space nicely and
was a good feature for the paper, as Our Boarding House and Out Our Way
had nice runs at the top of the page and the stories told below were done
well, even with the pacing issues involved in all daily serials.

1930:

In September, Fontaine Fox came back, more or less labeled as Toonerville
Folks now (there were still days when the title would wander, but it was
predominantly run with that title). In November, they added a panel from
George Clark (whose The Neighbors would run in both the News and
the Age-Herald at times during the '40's) called Side Glances.

In February, they dropped Side Glances as a regular feature, although it
would run on a space-needed basis somewhere in the paper off and on for
the next decade or so (in later years, along with something called Flapper
Fanny at times). In May, they picked up a goofy family strip (that's to
be parsed as "goofy family", not as "goofy strip", which would have been
more entertaining) called Mom 'n Pop, which changed names in August to
The Newfangles. In November, they dropped The Bungle Family and replaced
it with Buck Rogers, 2431 A. D.

In February, both Buck Rogers, which just never seemed to take hold in the
Birmingham market (it had run for a few months in the Age-Herald a
couple of years earlier), and Toonerville Folks (which would show up in the
A-H a couple of months later) disappeared.

1933:

In August they dropped Salesman Sam again and replaced it with Alley Oop,
which has survived much longer than the paper did.

In November, they dropped The Newfangles and replaced it with Barney Baxter
in the Air. Barney Baxter was a flying teenager adventure strip, which is
a premise no more farfetched than, say, Little Orphan Annie; if you
swallowed your disbelief it was fairly well written.

In February they squeezed everything a little thinner and added Myra North,
Special Nurse, a hospital-based serial that turned out to be more adventure
(lots of spies and criminals seemed to land in her ward) than soap opera.